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CB[n] responsive systems
Mommer, S.; Sokołowski, K.; Olesińska M.; Huang, Z.; Scherman, O.A. "Supramolecular Encapsulation of Redox-Active Monomers to Enable Free-Radical Polymerisation," Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 8791-8796. (read here)
Sokołowski, K.; Huang, J.; Földes, T.; McCune, J. A.; Xu, D. D.; de Nijs, B.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Collins, S. M.; Rosta, E.; Baumberg, J. J.; Scherman, O. A. "Nanoparticle Surfactants for Kinetically Arrested Photoactive Assemblies to Track Light-induced Electron Transfer", Nat. Nanotechnol., 2021, 16, 1121–1129. (read here)
Huang, J.; Ojambati, O. S.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Sokolowski, K.; Wan, Q.; Durkan, C.; Scherman, O. A.; Baumberg, J. "Plasmon-induced Trap State Emission from Single Quantum Dots", Phys. Rev. Lett., 2021, 126, 047402. (read here)
McCune, J. A.; Kuehnel, M. F.; Reisner, E.; Scherman, O. A.; "Stimuli Mediated Ultrastable Radical Formation", Chem, 2020, 6, 1819–1830. (read here)
Das, B.K.; Pramanik, B.; Chowdhuri, S.; Scherman, O.A.; Das, D. "Light-Triggered Syneresis of a Water Insoluable Peptide-Hydrogel Effectively Removes Small Molecule Waste Contaminants", Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 3393–3396. (read here)
Barrow, S.J.; Palmer, A.; de Nijs, B.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Bowman, R.W.; Baumberg, J. J.; Scherman, O.A. "Nanometer Control in Plasmonic Systems Through Discrete Layer-By-Layer Macrocycle-Cation Deposition", Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 8706–8710. (read here)
McCune, J.A.; Mommer, S.; Parkins, C.C; Scherman, O.A. "Design Principles for Aqueous Interactive Materials: Lessons from Small Molecules and Stimuli-Responsive Systems", Adv. Mater., 2020, 32, 1906890. (read here)
Wagner, A.; Hoang Ly, K.; Heidary, N.; Szabó, I.; Földes, T.; Assaf, K.I.; Barrow, S.J.; Sokolowski, K.; Al-Hada, M.; Kornienko, N.; Kuehnel, M.F.; Rosta, E.; Zebger, I.; Nau W.M.; Scherman, O.A.; Reisner, E. "Host-Guest Chemistry Meets Electrocatalysis: Cucurbit[6]uril on a Au Surface as Hybrid System in CO2 Reduction", ACS. Catal., 2020, 10, 751–761. (read here)
Barrio, J.; Liu, J.; Brady, R.A.; Tan, C.S.; Chiodini, S.; Ricci, M.; Fernández-Leiro, R.; Tsai, C.J.; Vasileiadi, P.; Michele, L.D.; Lairez, D.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Emerging Two-Dimensional Crystallization of Cucurbit[8]uril Complexes: From Supramolecular Polymers to Nanofibers", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 14021–14025. (read here)
Tabet, A.; Forster, R.A.; Parkins, C.C.; Wu, G.; Scherman, O.A. "Modulating Stiffness with Photo-Switchable Supramolecular Hydrogels", Polym. Chem., 2019, 10, 467–472. (read here)
Qiao, H.; Jia, J.; Chen, W.; Di, B.; Scherman, O.A.; Hu, C. "Magnetic Regulation of Thermo-Chemotherapy from a Cucurbit[7]uril-Crosslinked Hybrid Hydrogel", Adv. Healthc. Mater., 2019, 8, 1801458. (read here)
Huang, J.; de Nijs, B.; Cormier, S.; Sokołowski, K.; Grys, D-B.; Readman, C.A.; Barrow, S.J.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J. "Plasmon-Induced Optical Control Over Dithionite-Mediated Chemical Redox Reactions", Faraday Discuss., 2018, 214, 455–463. (read here)
Hu, C.; Liu, J.; Wu, Y.; West, K.R.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[8]uril-Regulated Colloidal Dispersions Exhibiting Photocontrolled Rheological Behavior", Small, 2018, 14, 1703352. (read here)
Wang, Y.; Wang, S.; Zhang, S.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J.; Ding, T.; Xu, H. "Plasmon-Directed Polymerization: Regulating Polymer Growth With Light", Nano Research, 2018, 11, 6384. (read here)
Wu, Y.; Shah, D.U.; Wang, B.; Liu, J.; Ren, X.; Ramage, M.H.; Scherman, O.A. "Biomimetic Supramolecular Fibers Exhibit Water-Induced Supercontraction", Adv. Mater., 2018, 30, 1707169. (read here)
Clarke, D.E.; Parmenter, C.D.J.; Scherman, O.A. "Tunable Pentapeptide Self-Assembled β-Sheet Hy- drogels", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 7709–7713. (read here)
Cieslak, A.M.; Janeček, E.R.; Sokołowski, K.; Ratajczyk, T.; Leszczynski, M.K.; Scherman, O.A.; Lewinski, J. "Photo-induced Interfacial Electron Transfer of ZnO Nanocrystals to Control Supramolecular Assembly in Water", Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 16128–16132. (read here)
Ding, T.; Mertens, J.; Lombardi, A.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J. "Light-Directed Tuning of Plasmon Resonances via Plasmon-Induced Polymerization Using Hot Electrons", ACS Photonics, 2017, 4, 1453–1458. (read here)
Ryan, S.T.J.; del Barrio, J.; Suardiaz, R.; Ryan, D.F.; Rosta, E.; Scherman, O.A. "A Dynamic and Responsive Host in Action: Light-Controlled Molecular Encapsulation", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 16096–16100. (read here)
Salmon, A.R.; Parker, R.M.; Groombridge, A.S.; Maestro, A.; Coulston, R.J.; Hegemann, J.; Kierfeld, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Microcapsule Buckling Triggered by Compression-Induced Interfacial Phase Change", Langmuir, 2016, 32, 10987–10994. (read here)
Ren, X.; Wu, Y.; Clarke, D.E.; Liu, J.; Wu, G.; Scherman, O.A. "Surface-Bound Cucurbit[8]uril Catenanes on Magnetic Nanoparticles Exhibiting Molecular Recognition", Chem. Asian. J., 2016, 11, 2382–2386. (read here)
Ding, T.; Valev, V.K.; Salmon, A.R.; Forman, C.J.; Smoukov, S.K.; Scherman, O.A.; Frenkel, D.; Baumberg, J.J. "Light-Induced Actuating Nanotransducers", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 2016, 113, 5503–5507. (read here)
Yu, Z.Y.; Zheng, Y.; Parker, R.M.; Lan, Y.; Wu, Y.; Coulston, R.J.; Zhang, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Microfluidic Droplet-Facilitated Hierarchical Assembly for Dual Cargo Loading and Synergistic Delivery", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 8811–8820. (read here)
Yu, Z.; Lan, Y.; Parker, R.M.; Zhang, W.; Deng, X.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Dual-Responsive Supramolecular Colloidal Microcapsules from Cucurbit[8]uril Molecular Recognition in Microfluidic Droplets", Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 5996–6002. (read here)
Hu, C.; West, K.R.; Scherman, O.A. "Hollow Mesoporous Raspberry-Like Colloids with Removable Caps as Photoresponsive Nanocontainers", Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 7840–7844. (read here)
Del Barrio, J.; Ryan, S.T.J.; Jambrina, P.G.; Rosta, E.; Scherman, O.A. "Light-Regulated Molecular Trafficking in a Synthetic Water-Soluble Host", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 5745–5748. (read here)
Li, C.; Rowland, M.J.; Shao, Y.; Cao, T.; Chen, C.; Jia, H.; Zhou, X.; Yang, Z.; Scherman, O.A.; Liu, D. "Responsive Double Network Hydrogels of Interpenetrating DNA and CB[8] Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems", Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 3298–3304. (read here)
Tan, C.S.Y.; del Barrio, J.; Liu, J.; Scherman, O.A. "Supramolecular Polymer Networks Based on Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions as Aqueous Photo-rheological Fluids", Polym. Chem., 2015, 6, 7652–7657. (read here)
Hu, C.; Tian, F.; Zheng, Y.; Tan, C.S.Y.; West, K.R.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[8]uril Directed Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Polymer Brushes for Dynamic Surface Engineering", Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5303–5310. (read here)
Yu, Z.; Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Parker, R.M.; Biedermann, F.; Liu, X.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Supramolecular Hydrogel Microcapsules via Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions with Triggered and UV-Controlled Molecular Permeability", Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 4929–4933. (read here)
Hu, C.; Zheng, Y.; Yu, Z.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Surface-Immobilized Micelles via Cucurbit[8]uril-rotaxanes for Solvent-Induced Burst Release", Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 4858–4860. (read here)
Nuzzo, J.A.; Scherman, O.A.; Mazzei, P.; Piccolo, A. "pH-Controlled Release of Auxin Plant Hormones from Cucurbit[7]uril Macrocycle", Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric., 2014, 1, 1–8. (read here)
Herrmann, L.O.; Valev, V.K.; Tserkezis, C.; Barnard, J.S.; Kasera, S.; Scherman, O.A.; Aizpurua, J.; Baumberg, J.J. "Threading Plasmonic Nanoparticle Strings with Light", Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 4568. (read here)
Stephenson, G.; Parker, R.M.; Lan, Y.; Zu, Y.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Supramolecular Colloidosomes: Fabrication, Characterisation, and Triggered Release of Cargo", Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7048–7051. (read here)
Abo-Hamed, E.K.; Pennycook, T.; Vaynzof, Y.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Koutsioubas, A.; Scherman, O.A. "Highly Active Metastable Ruthenium Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Production Through the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane", Small, 2014, 10, 3145–3152. (read here)
Biedermann, F.; Ross, I.; Scherman, O.A. "Host-Guest Accelerated Photodimerisation of Anthracene-Labeled Macromolecules in Water", Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 5375–5382. (read here)
del Barrio, J.; Blasco, E.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Koutsiubas, A.; Scherman, O.A.; Oriol, L.; Sanchez-Somolinos, C. "Self-Assembly and Photoinduced Optical Anisotropy in Dendronized Supramolecular Azopolymers", Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 897–906. (read here)
Lan, Y.; Wu, Y.; Karas, A.; Scherman, O.A. "Photo-Responsive Hybrid Raspberry-Like Colloids Based on Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 2166–2169. (read here)
Taylor, R.W.; Coulston, R.J.; Biedermann, F.; Mahajan, S.; Baumberg, J.J.; Scherman, O.A. "In situ SERS Monitoring of Photochemistry Within a Nanojunction Reactor", Nano Lett., 2013, 13, 5985–5990. (read here)
Hüsken N.; Taylor, R.W.; Zigah, D.; Taveau, J.C.; Lambert, O.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J.; Kuhn, A. "Electrokinetic Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanoparticle Chains with Cucurbit[7]uril Controlled Subnanometer Junctions", Nano Lett., 2013, 13, 6016–6022. (read here)
del Barrio, J.; Horton, P.N.; Lairez, D.; Lloyd, G.O.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Photocontrol Over Cucurbit[8]uril Complexes: Stoichiometry and Supramolecular Polymers", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 11760–11763. (read here)
Tian, F.; Jiao, D.; Biedermann, F.; Scherman, O.A. "Orthogonal Switching of a Single Supramolecular Complex", Nat. Commun., 2012, 3, 1207. (read here)
Loh, X.J.; Tsai, M.-H.; del Barrio, J.; Appel, E.A.; Lee, T.-C., Scherman, O.A. "Triggered Insulin Release Studies of Triply Responsive Supramolecular Micelles", Polym. Chem., 2012, 3, 3180–3188. (read here)
Lan, Y.; Loh, X.J.; Geng, J.; Walsh, Z.; Scherman, O.A. "A Supramolecular Route Towards Core-Shell Polymeric Microspheres in Water via Cucurbit[8]uril Complexation", Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8757–8759. (read here)
Appel, E.A.; Loh, X.J.; Jones, S.T.; Biedermann, F.; Dreiss, C.A.; Scherman, O.A. "Ultrahigh-Water-Content Supramolecular Hydrogels Exhibiting Multistimuli Responsiveness", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 11767–11773. (read here)
Biedermann, F.; Elmalem, E.; Ghosh, I.; Nau, W.N.; Scherman, O.A. "Strongly Fluorescent, Switchable Perylene-bisdiimide (PDI) Host-Guest Complexes with Cucurbit[8]uril in Water", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7739–7743. (read here)
Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Jones, S.T.; Geng, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "One-Step Fabrication of Supramolecular Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets", Science, 2012, 335, 690–694. (read here)
Loh, X.J.; del Barrio, J.; Toh, P.P.C.; Lee, T.C.; Jiao, D.; Rauwald, U.; Appel, E.A.; Scherman, O.A. "Triply Triggered Doxorubicin Release from Supramolecular Nanocontainers", Biomacromolecules, 2012, 13, 84–91. (read here)
Rauwald, U.; del Barrio, J.; Loh, X.J.; Scherman, O.A. "On-Demand" Control of Thermoresponsive Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) with Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Complexes", Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6000–6002. (read here)
Appel, E.A.; Rauwald, U.; Jones, S.; Zayed, J.M.; Scherman, O.A. "Supramolecular Crosslinked Networks via Host-guest Complexation with Cucurbit[8]uril", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 14251–14260. (read here)
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